delazeur

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by delazeur 11y ago
"(2) to take time off without leaving a hole in your resume (matters a lot in nontechnical fields)" Can anyone elaborate on how this is more important in nontechnical than technical fields? I've always thought this was a red
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by delazeur 11y ago
I don't know what route you take, but I've never seen the shanty towns from the light rail.
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by delazeur 11y ago
Reminds me of the rule "don't ascribe to malice what incompetence can explain." Don't assume nefarious intent when there is a profit motive involved.
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by delazeur 11y ago
Arguably, U.S. government interference in healthcare markets has been heavily influenced by insurance lobbyists for the purpose of increasing insurance profits. Although there is often a trade-off between availability and quality, other co
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by delazeur 11y ago
You're right; when I say "not that risky" I'm comparing reality vs. perception of space flight more than reality of space flight vs. reality of dangerous civilian jobs. On the other hand, for an accurate comparison to BL
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by delazeur 11y ago
For context: 4 out 301 spaceflights have resulted in fatalities, or 18 out of 546 people who have been to space. 13 people have died in training, but I have not been able to find the total number of people who have trained as astronauts or
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by delazeur 11y ago
I had a Sony Ericsson for 3 or 4 years; for the first year or two it could go almost a week without charging (it was always on but I rarely used it). I'm still not a huge mobile user, but now that I have a smart phone it's nice t
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by delazeur 11y ago
I would imagine there is a step change somewhere in causing brain damage. I.e., if your brain can withstand a 1.5g impact it can withstand any number of 1.5g impacts, but 2g or 3g impacts lead to cumulative damage. Then again, I don't
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by delazeur 11y ago
So you don't want the government to change regulations because it would give rich corporations an opportunity to leverage their lobbying dollars. Instead, you want rich corporations to cheat their way around regulations at leisure. (
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by delazeur 11y ago
The solution to silly regulations is to change them, not to ignore them or subvert them. Think what a can of worms would be opened if regulatory compliance was contingent on some ephemeral, arbitrary, socially defined notion of "silli
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by delazeur 11y ago
I imagine just about every company, startup or not, has compliance issues; it's just a matter of degree. (Then again, I am an environmental compliance consultant, so there's some selection bias in which companies I interact with.
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by delazeur 11y ago
It sounds like none of them were with their future spouses when you gave them the book. I may be cynical, but marrying after less than one to two years of dating doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
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by delazeur 11y ago
When I was in middle school a family friend (and Microsoft engineer) advised me to spend my teens and twenties dating as many people as possible and give every relationship a numerical rating, then settle down with the first person who exce
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by delazeur 11y ago
I've done a lot of engineering work in the manufacturing sector (both directly employed and as a consultant), and I know for a fact that most of the mechanics/machinists/electricians/operators/etc. believe that engi
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by delazeur 11y ago
May I ask where? Is it a local or national law?
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by delazeur 11y ago
Except that all four of these people were brought into the country as young children. Were you in control of your life when you were five?
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by delazeur 11y ago
> It means that oil companies have (collectively) predicted a much higher future demand growth than realized. That might be an over-extension of the markets-as-preditive-tool view. I am more inclined to see the current prices as a conse
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by delazeur 11y ago
There are also a number of companies (some in the S&P 500, more of them not), that get all or most of their revenue by providing services to the "obviously" oil & gas companies. You've got large steel and railroad co
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by delazeur 11y ago
A combination of high temperature, gas residence time, and various scrubbing technologies can more or less solve the toxic emissions problem from incinerators. On the other hand, landfills will emit huge amounts of methane for decades, and
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by delazeur 11y ago
> Making virgin plastic from the oil you saved by burning plastic trash in its stead is better/cheaper/more energy efficient than recycling the plastic trash. Do you have data on this? I didn't find any cited in the artic
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by delazeur 11y ago
That's very true. I wonder if the goal of the test writers was simply to make the problems wordier, or if they deliberately created ambiguity to test parsing skills? I don't think the article was clear on that distinction. Probl
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by delazeur 11y ago
I'm struggling with whether this is a "good" thing or not. On the one hand, I can see how it might increase the scores of privileged children relative to the scores of underprivileged children. On the other hand, should we
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by delazeur 11y ago
That's not how tax brackets work. You would "only" keep 27% of your income over $10MM, but you would keep a much higher percentage of that first $10MM. > would you put in a million dollars of effort to net a quarter of th
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by delazeur 11y ago
Well, participation in single-payer health care will either hurt the top hospitals or it won't. If it doesn't, who cares? If it does, what's stopping them from remaining private and only accepting those who can afford it?
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by delazeur 11y ago
> I doubt you can find a serious scientist who will confidently proclaim no alternatives are possible. Undoubtedly. The problem is that very few people, even among the well-educated and technically proficient, actually form their views
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by delazeur 11y ago
Stories like yours make me wonder if "marriage for life" is even a worthwhile goal.
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by delazeur 11y ago
Sure, but that's the low-hanging fruit of tax avoidance.
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by delazeur 11y ago
The key phrase here is "fee-only advisor."
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by delazeur 11y ago
Yeah, I don't think we disagree about any of that. "Gluten is a chemical" is admittedly not a very common bit of food pseudoscience, but I do see it occasionally. Sometimes the theory is that the added gluten is some kind o
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by delazeur 11y ago
This calls for follow-up research on how the absorption ratio varies with distance traveled. Please excuse me while I apply for some grant money.

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